Melatonin Can Be Used to Treat Childhood Breath-Holding Spells

Abstract

View all access options for this article.

Saad

Farghaly

Badry

Othman

. Selenium and antioxidant levels decreased in blood of children with breath-holding spells. J Child Neurol. 2014;10:1–5.

DiMario

. Prospective study of children with cyanotic and pallid breath-holding spells. Pediatrics. 2001;107:265–269.

Calik

Abuhandan

Aycicek

. Increased oxidant status in children with breath-holding spells. Childs Nerv Syst. 2013;29:1015–1019.

Carano

Zanetti

. Glycopyrrolate and theophylline for the treatment of severe pallid breath-holding spells. Pediatrics. 2013;131:1280–1283.

Walsh

Knilans

Anderson

Czosek

. Successful treatment of pallid breath-holding spells with fluoxetine. Pediatrics. 2012;130:685–689.

Gitto

Aversa

Reiter

. Update on the use of melatonin in pediatrics. J Pineal Res. 2011;50:21–28.

Banach

Gurdziel

Jędrych

Borowicz

. Melatonin in experimental seizures and epilepsy. Pharmacol Rep. 2011;63:1–11.

Ardura

Andres

Garmendia

Ardura

. Melatonin in epilepsy and febrile seizures. J Child Neurol. 2010;25:888–891.

Biran

Phan Duy

Decobert

. Is melatonin ready to be used in preterm infants as a neuroprotectant? Dev Med Child Neurol. 2014 Feb 27. Epub ahead of print.